E .............., i Id IL H. FRAZIER, EDITORS. 1 ' iTAKE TEE PAPERS. • I Isrw two men, as much alike, As e'er you saw two stumps; And no phrenologist could find - A difference in their bumps. • One takes the papers, and itis life Is happier than a king's ; - the children all can rearand write And talk of Men ana. things. . The other took no paper, and While strolling through the wood, . / - A tree fell down and broke his crown, And killed' him, "very gOod.! • llad'he been reading of the news, At home, -like -neighbor Jim, * . 111 bet a rent that accident Would , not havehappened Why - don't you take the papers?- ‘ Nor Croat the printer sneak, Because you borroli of his boy A paper every week. - - Tor he who takes the papers, . ' And pays his bills when due, .Can live in peace with God and man, And with the printer too. TH$ WILD WHITS MAN. , ♦ ROMANCE OF , ELL um. sthe year 1803, the British government, - oh erving the successful progress of the con vi t settlement at Port Jackson, fitted out an ition for the fOrmation of 'a similar es tablishment at the southern coast at Anstral iii. The great-inland bay of Port. Philip had, been explofed during the previous year - by Cdptsin Flinders, ; in the Avestigator ; and hi 4 favorable report of the surrounding coun trtgreatly influenced the government in their chpice of a locality. ' • ~ „ The coitimand of the expedition was-given to Colonel Collins. The convicts-367 in nrbet—Were all males. Ofilibese, only seventeen -received permission for their wives tc accompany them ;_ and with the exception or sevenlittlepnee, who were, too young to i • be left hehind, their Children were forbidden t+undertake the long find:dangerous voyage, which was-then regarded With , extreme dia. Arpsti A detachment of about fifty soldiers, - with three lieutenants, formed the military guard ; andvarious civil officers, four sur geons, and a chaplain and seven soldiers' wives ' coMpleted•thentatenet of the pew l•set dement.' ) --: n these days of breathless enterprise. w en our countrymen hurry to and fro over the whole earth, and undertake a voyage • to tbe antipodes; or an.expedition to the Norih Ple, with ellual coolness, it is interesting to mote the gloomy forebodings of these early vyagers to the southern world. The means ofso ding are furnished 'bY the Rev. Robert knopwood.autplain to the expedition. "The 'aria behind us, ; " he writes,'" is the abode of civilized people ; . that before us, the residence o 'savages. When, if ever; we shall enjoy an intercourse with the .world, 'is doubtful •d uncertain. - - We are leaving the civilized 'orld behind - us to enter upon a career un- i• mam." The. expedition saile'froni Plymouth _in the month of April, but it was not . until Cc tSber that the shores of Australia were des t - .. officers icd:-, Collins and his chanced to hind on a sterile and desolate portion of the oast;l and after sundry disappointments; rising from the absence of fresh water, the arene.ss of the soil and other-causes, a. spot ithout the Heads—as the rocky barriers at the, entrance, of Port Philip are termed—was 4lected as the site of the intended settlement. .ik. more unfortunate' choice could scarcely have'been made; •it Was found impoisible to subsist in such .a locality ; nor Were they suc cessful in their efforlslto discover a favorable 4istrict. Acting , therefore, on- the ,discre rtionary - powers Wherewith he Vas invested by the government, Colonel Collins. decided 1 on abandoning Port Philip, and steering 4eross Bass's Strait. ,:fle wientually founded the penal colony'of T'imania. , • But before this removal occurred, eight of e priseners absconded. Five of these were bsesuently recovered ; but the others nev er returned, And wcirfarliosedN to have per shed of hunger i or to have been slain . by the . hives. For thiity-two years, Port Philip retriain- . • unsettled, and, in fact, was supposed to be unfit for the habitation of civilized m in. an._ in . the interval, howeirer,- several pailifal explo rations had taken place. Hume awl Hovel! penetrated' overland to the Geelong court .try ; and the Sydney governmept had failed in a second attempt at convict colonization. Stuart bad discovered the source and embau chore of the Murray River- ' M'Kiliop ;had ; ventured to - Lake Omen, an gazed upon•the eternal snows of the Australian Alpsk, iind ferry had established a whaling statiqn at Portland Bay.' But lbe Pnot. of Tract:l6lß • 4monstrating the capabilities of PiifergiTrP belongi fo. John Batman: In May, 1535, this gentleman • sailed from Launceton. in Tasmaaid," and Icinding on the western Shores otthe bay, at - a point named by hiM'lridentecl Bead, he 'at once observed that the land in that region was excellently adapted for either tillage or pastoral uses. The natives were also very friendly ; and having, by the aid of interpreters, been Made to comprehend the , object of {he white man's , visit. they.tordially welcomed and granted him a large tract of Delighted with the successful result of his enterprise, Batman returned to Tismania for seeds and implements, leaving six of his men, with three month,: supply of proviiions, in charge of his newly acquired property. Du ring his temporary absence, strange event 45m„Armi. natives were eq little alarmed at the 'presence of the wtittes as to mix freely' with them,luid often assisted them by various kindly - affices, which were . requited in - kind. One day, however, a savage-of fiercer aspect than usual made his appearanee. ire was very tall, and of monstrous bulk.; hin matted hair hung wildly,abouthis shoulders, and hie features were nearly hidden by the profuse growth of his' beard. A loose ."rug", or wrapper, made of the'skine of the-Kangaroo, was his sole garment; and in hit. • hand he erried• a long and—formidable spear, con structed of 'the close-grained wood of the country, and its points and, rows of inverted teeth harkened by the action of fire -- As this uncouth being apProttebed 'the tents, their inmates pereeived with- astonish= meat that his skin was. of a tawny hue; when* all the natives whom they had yet -seen Were black. This caused them to stir raise that be might pcissibly, bwof 'European ; and as he stood before them, evident. ly laboring under strong excitement, and Sp yut . uttering ..po , . . . ' '. v• . . , , . _ '- ' •.• -.- • -, f4- ••- •:- -:.,---:.., - - ••- -•-• • , .'. -., ,•• ;;'-:• -:• - - ' '-', •-, --' -,---':' - , --. '-, ' '. , - ''. ---': ',:-:::••;-.- , ;.- ,_ - - '-• 1:-' - • • . .--., ~,-... .•,.. _. 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His eyes brightened, lie cast away his Spear, and stretching out his arm, With pager gestures, invited their. attention to something marked thereon. On examination this proved, to be two letters, W. 8.,' rudely pricked out and stained, sailor fashion. These they sought to decipher. W. ' said they, for William. He smiled and nodded. 'B.' for Burges.— He shook" his head. Brown ; Bruce;- Ball— everji name commencing with the sec* let: ter of the alphabet that theiVild thIA of, was tried, with the like resnit; call at length, as hy a t mighty effort; their strange visitor burst into speech, and exclaimed, with a gen uine English accent: W. fkir William, B. for Buckley. „. • Then they knew that it was one of their owu countrymen who stood in that wretched guise before them. , • On Batman's return to Port Philip, he was informed of this discovery, ,and being a man' of kindly disposition and feeling heart, he at once assumed the protection of the white sav age. his first care was to shave and clean his protege—a process which appears to havel considerably lessened the duskiness of the lattei's Complexion. „ The Kangaroo were dispensed with, and a more civilize& costume substituted ; but it was long ere he Could . walk in shoes '9 ith. nit much discomfort. His first shirt—seyn by Miss Batman—was of Brobdignagian prOportions, consisting of an incredible quantity of linen ; and vd.ien he was set on horse-back to accompany his pro tector,. it was discovered that the stores of the settlerscould not furnish stirrups suffi ciently large to accommodate his ; huge feet. By slow degrees, the .reclaimed man re• coveted the use of his native, language, and was enabled to communicate his history and adventures. It must not be supposed, how ever,. that \ his reminiscences assumed the form of a connected narrative; on the contrary, they'were extracted from him, not without difficulty, at various times. To the last he was sullen and reserved, usually answering in monosyllables ; and not unfrequently he manifested great anger on being questiohed of his past life. He is also said to have va ried _considerably m his account of some par ticulars; but his habttUin - ratorarattl, imperfect command of language, probably caused him to 'be rinisunderstoind by the re tailers of his conversation. :His history, divested of the romance wherewith it has sometimes been clothed, is as follows : _ William Buckley—for such was indeed his namewas born at Macclesfield, in Cheshii-e, in 1780. In early life, he followed the occu• pation of a stone-mason ; but his,great height -which is stated at six feet ,six inches—an& stalwart proportions atricting the notice- of a recruiting sergeant, he seas easily induced to exchange the trowel for the musket, and accordingly enlisted in the 4th, regiment.— He had served but a short time in his, new capacity, when he robbed one of his com rades; for which offence—such was then the severity colour laws—he was sentenced to transportation for life. This occurred in 1803, in the twenty-third 'year of 'his' age; and it thus happened' that he became 'an un willing member of Colonel Collin's abortive expedition to Port Philip. When the order for removal to Tasmania was issued, Buck ley, auk two others, warned respectfully Pye and Marmon, feeling doubtful :of their ulti mate fate, effected their escape from the camp, as previously stated ; and the vessels .sailing shortly after nothing more was heard of them. _ • What became of Pye 'and Marmon has never been satisfactorily ascertained. ,Buck ley haieif always evinced 'great, dislike to beinAlrestioned about them, and seemed to regard the inquirer with great suspicion. It appears that the course taken by the fugitives was around the head of the bay ; and Mr. Wedge in his' report to the Geological Socie-' ty.of Tasmania, dated4S3s, says that BuCk ley'assured hinr that in their flight, Pye be came exhausted, and was left behind at the Yarra River ; and that Marmon quitted him at Indented head, with the avowed intention of returning to the camp. But • there were many `d ifferen t versions of this affair. Some times Buckley averred that they were killed by snakes, and at others that they had lost themselves in the bush, and were never seen by him after, .But the Australian wilds fur nish no indigenous fruits capable of affording sustenance-to man; and it is generally, be lieved that huger, and the difficulty of pro- Curing food. -epast at- which hu -manity shudde us as it may, no ves tige of their rr ever been discover ed. )titer partil companions, Buck ley appears , mained alone some time.- One_ _ disgusted alike with his solitary )ife, , and\ the precariousness of hfs - meaus of subsistence, he wander ed on the, beach, anxiously endeavrkring to descry some vessel, which happily might rescue him from his vast prison: His shoes had long' since abandoned his feet, which now there fore left their imprint on the soft sand. As he strolled listlessly along, he • picked up a fragment of a spear, and with this be- traded amongst the rocks in search of shell-fish, now his principal foOct Whilst thus engaged. he was:observed by three native women, who, creeping stealthily down the beach, imagined that they beheld in him their lost chief ladurra- . 2 gark; whom Buckley appears to have resem bled in size and stature. The illusion was in creased by the circumstance of his carrying the broken spear of the deceased warrior ; and the color of his skin excited" but little surpriie, being-ilk - fly ascribed to the potent influence of the e.* . Njhe delilabs of the forest having, in a man tier-,,Optured this ungainly Samson; brought him, nothing loath; to the men of their tribe, who in fact, had seen `his footprints on the sand, and were, already in search .of him.— He was immediately surrounded by. a mob of yelling savages, and doubtlessly imagined that he was destined to be carved into collops for.the gratifiCation of his epictirean captors; but again his resemblance to the great chief The supersiition here alluded to is very prevalent amongst the Australian aborigine!, with imagine that the wholeof the white pop ulation are their deceased brethren. 'For a supposed' •estored friend they testify great affection; but it is very unpleasant, and not a little dangerous, to be - mistaken for a de parted enemy. 66 P2g,gporvi AN@ atIONV !an am aliamEmf LIR MONTROSE, THUTISDAY, MAY 6, 1858. .., . befriended him. : ',.IITy exained his feet and hands--- i they eagerly , scrutinized thospear,•of which he had forth . ately retained possession ; and wh4n they dis vered 'on his side a scar, similar In appeal-6 co toone which had mark ed the body of Ili rragark, they deemed_ the 0 evidence of his id ' tit •complete. Buckley, } meantite, mistoo their-Very animated ges tures fo so many tokens of their pleasure at , his fles hy conditi n. A long coolsetiion ensued, during 4oh the name of MO ark was in essanfly ry rested. It ended., very much tt his satisf i •tion, in their feeding him, instead 4 eating hin ; and - he was given to understand, by sig s, that thenceforth he was never t quit his . vage entertainers. ' Accordingly, nit ough treated with great respectl he was se,, pulously watched by day and nig t. He wits never suffered to fatigue himself with the e ertions of the chase; nor nitesimal t amount ofiabor of Australia unwillingly to perf. rm that in to whic the nativ ah was reared for him, stocked with unwonted subrr i His pm and his larder w extravagance, by his savage friends., The daintiet morselsr the Kangaroo, and` the i . most j icy of opp ssums, the sweetest por tions o the womliat;and the whitest, grubs of the, mimosa, a the largest of gum-balls, 'were ht. Baal the largest,eggs and the n 43, finest fi, h— the ri est berries and the most . -delicatit roots. T e rarest pigments were devoted to his use, and the warmest skins were ded to hisjwardrcibe. 1 Thu from a state of abject misery and ut ter lon liners , Buc -ley was suddenly elevated to asp ties of sav ge royalty, and held in revere tial awe as the restored Murragark. For so e time, tile only perceptible fluctua tion of üblic opi "on was the occasional out bursto camasl ropensities, when his wild subjee seemed survey his colossal form with .m ch peenlici adthiration. i Bac. ley's do m tic comfort was also duly conside ed, and / usky, but buxom young widow avas assiancid to him. by the general - °- consent of the trib , as his lubra,. or spouse. For sofne time th pair enjoyed the utmost felicity] of which' wo strange turtle doves were capable. B t this lasted not long ; for, according to Buck ey, the honeymoon was seareelY over, wh n his hut was one night in- 1 vadedjby sundr , nativ,e gentlemen ,, who, , claimirig a prior 'rght, forcibly carried off the l ie ,Itde. I Much vio ence does not appear to !Eve been offered nor were the husband's - Minas rawly cerated by this stroke of , fertunci. tie ack owledgeor, mdeed, mat nisi lubra area very 4illingly, and' that 'he did I not "Make a fussiabout-the loss," But the natives seem to h re taken a widely different I view of the affair for, irritated probably' at , ,this practical di paragement of their own, judgment, at the ady's faithlessness, and the injury !inflicted o their white friend, they speared both thelfrail one and her lovers. . Butjif Buckleys first colnpanion was in sensible to: his harms, there were other heartslmore, tend r and more true. A gen tle damsel, of 60 same tribe, of her owir ac cord visited his s litary home, and sought to soothel and pleas' the forsaken stranger.— Nor v, 4 ere here ff its unsuccessful . Buckley, i at various period, had many wives, but he always expresse had in, more favorable terms of his= Seto d partner than of any other. On the,sea shor near Point Lonsdale, is a natural cavern, i the limestone rock, which is said to have b ea the abode of the wild white an. and h s mate during this portion of his :eyentful c. eel'. It has been dibted whether Buckley had any childreo. By those who renew and con versed with him;jihia point is diversely stat ed ; some declaring positively that he was childless, but others, and the majority of evi dence!is this Nidel speak of sons and daugh-; ters. , When rec aimed, in 1835, he had with him twojahrlisr, boy and girl ; but he al ways Many other of thfise as adopted children. Maily other ,pfirticulars were at sundry timeslextracted 4om him, and have been worked up, by Ni. Morgan, of Hobart town, into a long and=mteresting narrative. hi it are numerous_ details of native feasts and fights! ofbuntine , and corrobborees ; as might be exeeted; there is a great paucity of actual eventl:i . Occa - si+ally, he seems to have lost a portion of the trifluence he ordinarily-exert ed over his MI friends. ' Whether their faith in his invol ntary personation of Mur ra,garlc sometimeei became weak, or was over „powered by hunger, -We knOw not ; but he averred that for arm years he constantly expected death . The young men, he said tt were !for killing . im ; but the elders of the tribe:always int' rfered to save his life. Ile. 1 - L appears to have. alien matters very coolly and if possessed he certainly never attcmpt ed to exert, the lc Of iivilized intellect, -nor sought, by t e communication of useful arts, 'to improy the condition of his savage associates; . on the contrary, contented.appa rently with thetratification of his animal ap petites, he willihgly sunk to the de.acl and dreary level of Australian barbarism. Like his untutored.friends, he fed on raw or semi roasted flesh; clothed himself in the skins of beasts, and acqiiirink the 'native dialect, ceas ed even to thin'of his mother tongue. until; as we have see . , he had totally forgotten its use. ! Once or I wice, he said, he saw ships enter the bay,;rt he does not , appear to madehav the lightest effort to attract the attention of the r inmates, nor in any *a extricate himseirfrom the degrading position into which he 'lad fidlen - , until Batman firmly planted his foot upon the soil. ' Such was tht poor lost creature whom, af ter i i lfirty-two , ears of savage life, the early , colonists of I' Philip'restFed to civilized i t. 'society ; and,- t, is' proper to that his own: delightowhen e was enabled to comprehend thc;\ change, is 'unbounded. • ” Nothing," saya`Mr. Wed e, "Could .exceed the joy he evinced at on, feeling himself a free man. I received againrithin the pale of civilized so ciety." , 1-lowever h may have been deficient in other qualitiCa ingratitude was clearly' not one of Buck' . 'is' faults. , Both 'Batman and Wedge coneu In stating that he exerted himself great! instnaintaining amicable rela •tiotto between he natives and the colonists. To the fortifier entlernan—his constant friend and patron— ii was,',Much attached ; and when informed of his death, it is recorded the', "he threjar himself upon the bed and wept bitterly.' ' luckley's subsequent career is soon told. A free Pordontw,ss, at his own\mg,ent desire,. In4ured for; m from Colonel \Arthur, the gasieroor,of mania; and be Was appoint ed native into eter, with a - ,salarY, .of $5O per ;mum. , n . this ' capacity, his `services w bin gnat, nest ; and . when Sir\ftich -48 et 1 ourke ,Me down from Sydney to ssur- vey the new colony, Bubkley - was selected to accompany him' in his our through the coun try. But his position Siam' became uncom fortable. Serious disputes broke out between the settlers and the native population. The latter committed 'many robberies, ,and at length speared two . of their white neighbors, whose. graves, on the ' . Flagstaff Hill,, near Melbourne, are still religiously preserved.— We have no record pf joffences on the other side, but doubtlessly 'the whites -were not blameless. , Buckley, rho eotild not forget tlybkindness of his old - friends, refused to in• tose between the cdtatending parties, de. daring that the hostility' of the bled's was solely attributable to the miaconductl of. the colonists. Fearing, therefore, that he might relapse into boxbaristiOatnyan resolveti to 'send him out of Port'Phillip ; and accord ingly, in -1836, he was htdueed to embark for Hobart-town, where ha: resided. during the remainder of his life: His figure and strength obtained for him the pest of constable ' which he held many years: . Subsequently, he was employed as assistant storekeeper at the Im. 1-migrant's Home, and later still, as gate keep er of the Female Nursery. In his sixtieth year, Buckley again ven turing on matrimony; ,contractcd• union with the widow of an immigrant. In 1850, the Tasmanian' governnrient bestowed On him the insignificant pensiori of £l2 per annum ; and in te following yea', Victoria having been separated from New South Wales, and erected into an independent colony, its legis lature voted an additiohal annuity of .£4.0. - Endowed by nature with an iron constitu tiotT, which his wild Itfe no doubt materially' assisted to strengthen, Buckley enjoyed' vig orous health almost to the latest hour. 'His death was occasioned by accident. In Janu ary, 1850, he was thrown from a vehicle, and received such severe injuries in the fall, that in a few days he breathes his lett sigh, at the advanced age of seventy-six." The Basin of the Atlantic Ocean. - The basin of the Atfantic Ocean is a long trough, _separating the Old World from the ' New, and extending, probably, froin pole to pole. This ocean furrow was- probably scoured into the solid crust of our planet by the Almighty hand, that there the waters which he called sea might be gathered to gether so as to let the dry land appear, and fit the earth for the hahieo "X man. Fr om ain top nf crOnaborazo to the bottom of the ,Atlantic ; at the deepest place yet rent!? by, the plummet in the Northern Atlan the distance, in a vortical line; is nine miles.— Could the waters of the - Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose trA view this great sea ga-h, which separatea continents, and extends. from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and. imp - wing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we' should have pre sented to us at one view, in the empty cra dle of the ocean, "a thousand fearful wrecks, with that fearful array of dead men's skulls, great anchors, heaps of pearl, and inestima ble stores, which, in the poet's eye, lie 'scat tered in the bottom of the, sea, making it hideous with the sidlits of ugly death." Tbe deepest , part of the North Atlantic is proba bly somewhere between the Bermudas and the Grand Banks. The waters_ of the Gulf of Mexico are held itiji basin about a mile deep in' the deepest part. There is, at the bottom of the sea, between Cape game in Newfoundland, and Cap 6 Clear in Ireland, a remarkable steppe, which is already known as the tele graphic plateau. The great circle distance between these two shore lines is 1,600 miles; the sea along this route is probably nowhere more than ten thousand feet deep. „ A PionEß PREACUER.—The Rev. Peter Cartwright; the old Western pioneer, is a delegate from Sangamon county, 111., to the Democratic State Convention. The corres pondent of the St. Louis Republican thus writes of him : "This Peter Cartwright is none othenthan the celebrated old . pioneer preacher, whose name is as familiar all over the_ country as household words;' the same man whose au tobiography -has been sold all over the count ry by thousands. We saw the old gentle man this afternoon in the County Conven tion. lie looks bile and hearty, and as if he would live a hundred yeais longer. He is certainly a very remarkable man in his way. We believe he is' now nearly eithty years old. He will be greeted by hundreds of old friends when the State Convention meets, for he is well acquainted all over, the4State. A good story was told about the old gentleman during his attendance on the Methodist Con ference, which met in one of the Eastern cit ies a few years since.. He put up at one of -the large hotels, and at night was shown_ his room, which happened to be quite high up in the building, and aceessable by a long, winding staircase. After reaching his" room he hallued in a loud voice, sufficient to arouse the inmates of the hotel, after this manner _ : Landlord, I say, latid!ord, bring me a hatch et.' Upon the landlord making his appear ance and inquiring what he wanted with the hatchet; bring me a hatchet,' said the old .reacher, 'I want to blaze the way so that I may be able to find my way dotin when I want to.'" READING.--S9Me people Will get more profit in an hour's reading than others will in_ a whole day of listless, indolent dozing over a book. Their reading is in fact study. The brow i. knit with intense thought, the eye kindles with lively attention, the lips per haps in •oluntary move pari pasta with the. glowin lines of the writer. To such minds every ye minutes spent in reading is of in estima •le a l antage. Every sentence leaves, a path of ht in their memories; every page is a tcpie to their reflection ; every metap orlends'a new pair of wings to their fancy. 'A g F l eet portion of whakpeople read leaks their mind and is lost, like water through a sieve. To soms, extent .ot to be regretted, since such tons of tual trash are now devoured to grad raved appetite. The rule is to, read- Forth thinking of, and then think of throug EMU/ this is intelle fy a d what " Pray, now," said a young coxcomb Johnson, " what would you give, old so, to be as young and sprightly as 1 ",Why, sir, 1 think," replied John. could ainput consent to be as fool- to r. gentle an i 1" son;" ish." LINE = "Make my to go in the path of , ♦ , Plum cur. Wait; from that path, Moulins I wander, hedge my way abo So that, perforce I must return Where snares and dange There plant Thine angel and ay. When to Thy throne rot. imperf- Dear Lord, consider well wha Judge my . unwise complaint; an . 1 • To make it good •, 'to winnowi That only what is meet For fruit again - in answer shall d For %wilt. two paths I halt, nor I 0, leave me not to guess—Th ; Be thy controlling hand my Suffer me not to stray, Rather compel me closr to Thy When blind and ialot, against T Thus, my consummate weaku Hearken, my God, my B Regard-my prayer, low breathel THH MAR WHO AUGC MR. WINTHROP was a p er, and the father of two c et home had been under housekeeper rather more t the evenings began to len ter winds sounded their through the leafless branch sensibly to miss- the corn meats of an unbroken ho think seriously of filling th his hearth. The doctor, despite the a in the profession, ha# n.ar; as a consequence, fOund with a small family Upon income somewhat narrowe nous than he mould have was a handsome man,,was among the ladies, and po professional reputation. cumstarices ambition wills; be very possible for him iant alliance ; to carry off dy whose solid chsarms sho niary vexations, while her and . her style..should, mak all the town. To do the did not draw on his imagi details; they were sug g es _mode in Aker per3on - orM a lady whose apparent age and twenty. On the other hand, he tage just out of town, em es and honeysuckles an green, where dwelt in the mestic peace and tranquil joy of a widowed mothe idol of the small circle wrm-hearted people wit. —i-sweet Annie nuntingte !Annie was gentle and none of the golden gr. bons of her town rival ; what was better, a refi mind, an amiable disposi lovina b heart. The doo.'s first wife •of this staffi)o - . ; quiet a tastes ;- gentle and affecti and the doctor had some pressions that these sam - much to do with the hap years of married life. man ; he loved his home ments, and home endea . thelesS, Amy had come bride, and the consequen debt noW, and harrassed One'dreary November came home from a round "professional calls to find housekeeper cross, the c Before the cloth was - children were sent to be, misdemeanor; and shor housekeeper, irritated at of the doctor's,. slamme ; her and retired to her o • Thusleft alone to his doctor fell very natural, and 'his soliloquy took v of the dismal rain whi against the windows. " What a miserable li will be the ruin of me an that i,s certain. But ho truth of the matter is, I fortune. I'm bothered te with duns. There's the. been paid these six mon eras ali is about due ; a mortgage'on this house month.. Te be sure,. wi management all these straight in the course of keeper at the head of like a good wife, I've s • have a slight suspicion, • Amy. Pour soul-! she me ; but then I ought n her when I did. Why ; ed a while, and not, h headlong into—l know experience is a dear se learn in no other.' The now, that'would be a about ; a couple of thoi pone, she will Wing to tunate enough to win he and the queenly air sht good to see her corn street ; head up, and al , slender, foot fairly sco walks on. • They say f have tempers ; but I , sense; besides, no ma spirit of the right • sor heartless, that's all n woman has a heart, on the wit to lsy his hand to find the soft spot in Once get your hand fa'. the heartstrings, and proudest of them. N of weakness for me- 1 it this long time; and believe I shall ever do ' her.". Tbe_dootor paused, the pretty cottage and ted-across his brain, ft ly pensive, and a glea ened his dark eye. .13. tered, "T!! ! haw I that no. fortune:" ,Things grew hazy and then, as if just ar lution, he started up, / walk, and went out. 'wigomaagg it was fiS the affianced husband of Minerva Hall. A short time elapsed—to the doctor it seemed very - shortuntil she was lirtught home to preside as Mrs. Witthrop river his household. . It may be doubted whether, even (on his wedding night, the. doctor felt supremely blest; but perhaps the first real tangible drop of bitten-tees in cup was tasted when he saw his handsome wife stand before her mirror and divest herself of a magnifi cent Set of -false teeth and tao or.three heavy braids of hair These slight bperithins, to gether iith the washing °trot a coat of rouge and pearl powder, wrought - quite a transfor mation in the beautiful. Miss Hall. One morning; shortly after, Mrs. Winthrop was going shopping; and desired her liege lord to supply her with the necessary fundi.} " I am extremely sorry,"'ieplied the doc tor, blandly,'" but really, my dear, haven't the money by me this morning:" The full red lig, whose pout du( court hip had been 'so bewitching, now in ear-nest in a way that wasn't, fascinating, when she said," 4 -prett; to-make to my first request for inc doubtless this is only the commence! the - insults which 1 shall be called endure:" Comnusluim!nts." s • appointed me t, good Lord, Thee ; be, 'raging sword. t prayers ascend, I entreat; condescend I . g chaff from wheat know the way, self decide l ,e, .8t1Y; y strength I fling, ss ; putting trust nfro g ? m out the,dust. A TARTAR ysician, a widow ildren. His qui 'the charge of a an a year, and as en, and the win emonitory notes I.s, he began more its and endear. e circle, and to vacant seat by The doctor was a little chagrined, plied, " Very likely, madam ; for married you -I expeet;i3You to find , . in pin-money." , • " You did, eh ?" she retorted. "SU you married me for my` money, did you l and you have the impudence to tell of it to my 'face, too, actually before the 'honeYmoon is over. It is shameful, sir; it is outregeous !" The doctor strove to apologize - :i but the virago had the advaeage of him, arid she continued to pour out the torrent of invec tive long after he bad placed the door be tween them, and was hurrying down the street. As this scene had commeneed at the breakfast table, its effects upon- the !children, who wile present, can better be imagined than described: That day' the- doctor took the pains to :ascertain the amount' of Mrs., Winthrop's .:-." fortune." It turned out to consist in the interest of five thousand pounds Which ceased at her death. Subsequent dis coveries proved whim that, as the result of the lady's extravagance, her- account at the banker's was .usualty overdrawn. 1 - The delightsomeness of the doctr's even -1 ings at home insy he imagined. ' Generally his ASOU ree after teawas the newspaper or a book ; or if the household atmosphere was too stormy, he betook= -himself hr a small supper-room, which was usually denorrimated his study.- Sitting there one evening, while his wife. was entertainiri,,,m two orl three fascin ating young friends in the parlor, he heard a timid knock at the doo'and his little gold en-haired Amy - entered ; his firstborn, his pet, the namesake of his early 'eve. -She led-her younger brother b y the hand, and ---- I both wore crying. - The doctor's heart was touched. By limns. strange forgetfulness, he seemed never, till this moment, to have taken , into leonsidera tion.the claims of his.children -in Idle choice of a step-mother for theta. . Now, is if in a magic glass, the enormity (if his conduct in this respect was held up, before hint. Stretch ing out his hands, he said tenderly, " Come her, Amy darling, and tell me whitt grieves you." ' She glided gently into, his embrace, and Harry climbed noiselessly to is father'S knee. " Please, Papa," said Amy, timidly, "is the new mother to be alirays out mother ; or will, she go away, by-and-by„ a ,our own mamma did ?" • The doctor's 'eyes filled with tea inquired with a choking voice, " IN ask me such a question, my dear'? "Because, if she is only to sta here a lit tle while, I will try tn. be patient and good till she is gone," replied Amy.; `but, oh ! papa, I hope she will no be here-always." Spirit of the gentle„departed Amy ! wert thou hovering near to watch the upWelling of that long slumbering 'fountain of parental tenderness?" Closer, cloier',to hi a , . heart he held the dear offspring of i 0 youthful love, and asked, " What is it, Amy darling I Tell papa what the new mother has done." ' Oh! it is many things, pave:: replied Amy._ "First of all, she don't hive me and Harry. lam sure she don't ; foe she scolds us so, and saes such cruel thing; calls us ' beggar's brats !' Does that me a n our own mamma?" "Go on, my dear," said thi "What else 1" "Then she makes us eat in tl you. know," continued Amy. The doctor's heart reproached him for ev er having consented to this arrangement. 1 "And she only gives us dry btlead and lit : , 1e bits of pie and cake that arT .e l e eft:, be cause she says now that she has n cheat. ed into marrying a beggar, she must be ems nomical:' The doctor thought of a new set of jewel ry brought home that morning, and sighed. But that is not all, papa. he strikes us ;look there !" and the little one stripped up her baby brother's sleeve, and, showed .the marks npon his arm. And. these were Amy's children. "Oh ! fool Asti was Mgroaned the re - I / pentant lathe?. , • / For a half-hour he held the chidren,orrifid knee and comforted them. 'lt made t cm very happy, for childish sorrows , ei.e ily, assuaged ; and then taking a had f each, he led them into the nursery,* w them lajd into their 'quiet bed; nor. dO he leave them, till locked in a sweet, c idish embrace i *1 they : both slept quietly. , " : The next morning/the 'wits. scene; It was commenced by / so e mild r twat of the doctor's with regard ' the nurs ry arrange meets; -for the ? doctor had , b this time ' learned theftiliFy of his old notions respect ing the-eisSe with which a spit ited female may beinars'aged; and he now so wally dread ed arremxiunter with Mrs. Dr. Winthrop. "'Did / be expect her to' trouble herself about another woman's brats'!" said she,— " DTP ; he hired a nursery-mahl -for ,that--it was none, Of her business sto, be sure; whether he ever paid her,or not. As for the children coming to the table with her, it was a Adieu itit lourfwhimomd as long as she', as 'mistress of that house it should never': ' Winded. Gi course when theywere gro apit Would be different; bet no slobbering inafore ba bies should ever be seen at her. 'ble.'", - - - " Madam !" cried the doctor enlarged 'et her impudence, " I'fancied lEn ried 0.. lady when I married you, but .1 see, I was; iniitak• en." I, vice of his elders led too young,and imself at thirty is hands, and' an 'and more preca• i oil:ed. Still he a great. favorite , essed an excellent 'Under these eh-- , i i • red that it would :snie dashing 'o o ntractab la rill : Id allay hiS pecu beauty, her;, wit, : him the envy of i octor4stice, he ation , fp;r: all these ed to hick ready mmerVa- pall, was five or six new a littlO cot sowered amid ro;- clumps of ever ' retirement or du i ty;the solace and, :and ,the pet and of cultivated• and whom she Moved' ir-haired ; she had I or subtle fasctna; `but - she possessed ed And educated , ion, and a warm, ad been 8-..ixpa.an d domestic in fier nate in disponition ; rather distinct im • utilities had had iiness of these few e was a domestic and: home enjoy ents ; yet,. never him a portionless e was he was in lily . f.n. lards. • evening the doctor of most vexatious ea not ready, the ildren in tears.— . rce removed the _ _ for some trivial ly afterwards the ome sharp remark the door behind n room. wn tpeditations, the ly to soliloquiiiog, y much the tone g : beat continually is this to lead. It - my children soon, to mend it? The ought to marry _a death day by day . rocer's bill hasn't s—and the butch id the interest of the * ust be paid next the right kind of . , ings could be put time; but a house , ternal affairs isn't •en that; neither, I re all women like was.a good wife to , it to have married .• uldn't I have wait ve plunged - myself not what ? Well, 001, but tools will 're's Minerva Hall, 'etch worth talking sand at , least, I sup !he man who is for -1r; besides her wit, , has. It does one ' walkin own the, ch 'a bus T,l and her ing the ground she ch women are apt to hink that's - - all non will object toa little I As to 11W:being , . nsense ' too.- - ...,Every I levery man hasn't upon It. Trust me' a woman's heart.— , rly wound in among ou can manage the w Minerva has a sort know thit—l've seen on the wholeA don . % better than" to . marry; / 'nff - I think a vision of its fairer inmates flit he grew more deep .; of tenderness. tioft t presently he mut. ill never do i she has I ; 7<— brein ith a While; ivied at : a Sudden reso:. rrayed himself , for a " ben he came back H. H. FRAZIER; PUBLISHER—Vet... 4, IMO f" Ha !" .she ` exclaimed, with, s.• -laugh of bitter'scorn; "you thought ;you caught-an heiress, brit you may find instead that you Caught a, T4rtar."‘ ' . "I believe you r madam , " said . the doctor -and rising from the table, he: went - Toith to' piiy his profebsional visits, although at first 'hefet more inclined to hail something at li - Such see ties's!' these Were frequently. int- acted 'in the doctor's eats lishnrient, and the children suffered accordin ly. -But,if Would . . seem that the gentle spirit of- their \departed ._ mother 'hovered over the househol d the _ protection of her dear children,' for s shottly - afterwards a,malignant fever -broke tint in the neighborhood, and the only . ' one,ln‘ that &Oily who fell a victim to It was the, T i 01i.... mother-in-law. , ; t , - Dr.. Winthrop now suddenly awoke.to hie duties, and frOm the dream_of gain which bed enthralled him after the decease of hie" first ' wife. Again_ l ;;as he' sitting in his lonely - rborn, and gazing around in bewilderment. The fire was going out in the grate.; . the can die was wasting and guttering upon the ta ble, and still, as when an hour ago he .had Olen asleep, the dismal November'rain best against the windows, The doctor rubbed. his eyes, looked-, eagerly around him,,.anil as j then fervently ejaculated, " Thank Heaven l" The next evening found Di. Winthrop -a _ guest at Rose Lawn.' A week later he w the accepted suitor-of 'sweet Annie Hunting- ton ; and it was not many months before , he led - led her from the altar a happy bride. • • Home pictures, very different froni those-. seen in his dr eams, greet the doctor now of . an evening L and under the quiet bat efficient - it artagemtntl'of his gentle wife, the wrinkles .-- • .have disappeared from 'his brow, . the ewes 'from his heart, and begs now_ a proSperons • and a happy man. . ring the swelled half so 7 reply, oney ; ;menfof 'upon to and re when I yourself FAMILY INFLUENCE IN WASHINOTON.-.41)13., I Washington correspondent of the Philadel phia Press says : " It is curious iiiiiotice howfamili ence controls things' in Was hington-- The old families are adepts at this business.-- They are the nobilky.of the Capital.. They seem to think that.: everything belongs. do them, and they grow Boni only to.put them into place, or train daughters iSnly to match,, them to fortunes or to Bureaus. There .are a number cif families "who havefirior sex in • office. The army; the navy,.the corps, the civil service, home and, foreign, are honored by the seioUs of the first families. All kinds of fascinations are resorted to. to. accomplish these results. The labors of a dozen Senators, the !mires won in 'a dozeri campaigns, even the learning and experience . of a life, nie- nothing in Comparison to the system ridopted by these veterans in Wash- ington society; Not; indeed_, -that 'there - is anything morally, Wrong 'ln their Marti:ewers. I do not charge it.' .But it is s. thing of: al- . mo - st daily occurrence to findS young fellow, without brains, but abundantly skillful,ht the aria and gni(' Ps of the saloon apol opera-house, and au fail in the more mysteries • of the higher circles, seated in some official snuggery, where he can remain-as long as he' -pleases. making his duties the incidebtal and f‘ his moustaches the main businessfof hittlifit." Fultrrxxss or THE Osinicn.-When the ostrich is feeding, his pace is from .twenty, to tatwo inches ; when *walking, but not 0, it is twenty six inches ' • and when terrified, it is froth eleven and a half to thir teen and even fourteen feet in length. Only in one case was I at all satisfied of being able to count the rate of speed -by a stop watch, and, if I am not mistaken, there were thirty in ten seconds ; generally the eye can no more follow the legs than if can :the 'spokes of a carriage wheel in motion. If we take the above number, and twelve feet, stride at the average 'pace ' we have a speed of twenty aix miles - an hour: It can not be very much aboVe that and is therefore slower than a locomotive.7—Airingstoneiilf rice. • . s, and he by do you &VIE' MAKES GIVING.-A collector of futids for' a charitable institution in London ' came to the house of an old gentleman, whcise front door being ajar, be was heard somewhat , sharply "reproving his servant. For whit : :•; / fault 1 Because, after kindling\a fire, with a 7 - match, she had thrown the' match in the :fire, when, both ends being tipped with sulphitrAt could have been used a second time. / The' •'. collector thought nothing could :be . got/hoer - He however summoned courage, went inand .• ' told his object. To his great surprise / the old 1 gentleman he rd a the case with / interest, and counted out four hundred guitteayto 'further the . charity. The Collector; then told him , • what he bad overheard: ii•Thlit is quite an other thing," said theeld/man. 'Saving • makes giving. AlwaYo,xpect, most from . ~, prudent people, who first know how- to mind . .. , their own accounti."/ ' - . :-, . TUE' VartiatZ=We believe in verandas 1 —as muckso as in any room inside of the house itself. ' In the first place, they don't; costnch"; , secondly, they afrord shelter, Aade, /ni and protection; and thirdly, they are i • the very pleasantest p,arts;of the dwelling ' to ' :wit in during the warm season of the year, • and enjoy the snail' intercourse - , of family and friends. The. good housewife, toe, here ~ finds ample space, and prOteetiOn, VS spreaA, her fruits of apple, . petjr.,'" peach, 'cherries plums, and berries, to dry, and 'cure them ; : • set an evening tea tsble :these,- even. :The family; after being accuternekto's ierande, would - not know what to do without it. We would rot.build a_hotise, and call 'it "aim. pieta,'" withbut the veranda, It beautifies ' the house, alin 3 giving it' no. air of comfort:' '` and' repose-which no other feature Can `do, - and is every way indispensable,' in making an architectural finish to a country home.-- American Ayrietifturist, .. 4 --, , ~, doctor. nursery; - - - One of ruechie proverb makers says "If wel only said one,half the, witty 4410 that, on reflediou, we feol . ,we might have paid, what olksice felloWs we should be." Sureoough Almost apybody . ean be.wit ty„iflyou givo hiin tittle: We in our . memory it list of ; about twenty . smart things we might brie laid, if We had thought_ of them on . die proper "occasion. rte'" The Hartford Ceurarit .says, Abat "Yesterday is a - stranger' from Boston, was pimising through the State-HOuse yard., he was accbated by an Irishman - with, "An' 'wham please yet honor. is 'the' :voting place "I di) not know," was AIM reply,— ara a atraFP,.' gef . bere,"' : • "And &ix, so snit" . . " NE , ~ NIE
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